I remember when Joel Kuhnel joined the Brewers a few weeks ago and immediately had a huge velo jumped, people assumed it was something to do with the Vegas park. Seems like: No, it's real. (Hasn't led to production, though.)

I do not recall making this but it feels very appropriate to Wednesday's game.

BA and Vinny were just a little too giddy about "look at this guy the A's gave up on!" right before he surrendered the lead.

Moose Haas Pitcher Debut: 1976 - Retired: 1987 OAK - MIL

Ok we need to do something about these Gen Z kids with the creepy mustaches, especially blonde ones like Cooper Pratt

Chad Patrick just allowed three consecutive batters to hit the ball a combined 1277 feet. That's...unusual.

If you find yourself thinking "Hey, TJ Shook, that name sounds familiar, maybe it's because you remember when he was an undrafted sensation as a Timber Rattler: share.google/A1QBZDLNpKb0...

Potential milestone moment: Is today the day Jake Bauers became too valuable to pitch in blowouts?

This is a thing Chris Mehring and I used to talk about all the time: Being able to come out of the bullpen and immediately throw strikes is a skill. Doubly so if you weren't expecting to come into the game, like Grant Anderson just did.

It's a good week to have written about Jake Bauers. As luck would have it that's what I did this week for Shepherd Express: shepherdexpress.com/sports/brewe...

It is June 1 and there are only six winning teams in the entire American League but five in the NL Central. What a time to be alive.

Abner Uribe is still only 25 and so maybe he's still got some maturing to do, but the Two Suspensions for On Field Behavior in Three Seasons Club isn't very flattering company

There are going to be so many families trying to leave AmFam tonight who can't find their middle schooler in among the shirtless masses.

It's fascinating to me that the behind home plate ad at AmFam, which has to be the most valuable ad space in the park, was more valuable to a Japanese company than anyone else tonight.

Out of context, this seems like a lot of players to have on an injury report in May.

Until Vinny just brought up Freddy Peralta I had not considered the role the Mets' collapse might play in the trade deadline.

Is it time for Cubs fans to start chanting about the Packers again?

Stillwater!

Via @bykylelobner.bsky.social, the #Brewers make it way too difficult for pitchers to qualify for their Wall of Honor (and too easy for batters). Peralta and Woodruff to never qualify? Tweak those thresholds! shepherdexpress.com/sports/brewe...

Starting to look more and more like it might work over a full 162.

I don’t know what it is about the Brewers that turns opposing defenses into confused Sims who can’t get out of a room but I’ll take it

After this weekend there are 74 plaques on the Brewers' Wall of Honor and seven spaces reserved, but those numbers won't stay the same for long. My latest for Shepherd Express looks at the next candidates to qualify, including one that might be there in a month: shepherdexpress.com/sports/brewe...

Little known fact: The "Ft." in "Ft. Wayne" actually stands for "Fountains of." youtu.be/dZLfasMPOU4?...

Once every few weeks I go see Eric with @cooltabletrivia.bsky.social and without fail I end up singing this for days afterward. youtu.be/vi7Lx-AZUIM?...

Is John Kruk sober and/or ok?

"We've got a close game in the eighth inning, what do you want to talk about?" "Can we dig up old video of fights?"

This is your annual reminder that there are a wide array of compliant responses to a demand to "make some noise."

Umpire Austin Jones called out Miguel Vargas on a pitch that missed inside. Vargas challenged and the call was overturned. The next pitch, he hit a home run. Batters have reached base 43 times this season after successfully overturning a called strike 3.

I hope the "Brewers bunt a lot, win" narrative doesn't overshadow the fact that the pitching allowed two runs over two games. *That* is why they won.

Brice Turang's current 22-game on base streak (stretching back to 2025) is tied for the 70th longest in Brewers history. His 16-game streak to start the 2026 season is now in the top ten, the longest since Luis Urias had 17 in 2022.

You spend all winter without baseball and that's just long enough to forget what it's like to watch a team struggle to hit objectively bad pitching.

I'm not sure if it'll work over a full 162, but "wait and see if opponents forget how to play baseball" is a more successful strategy than I would have expected.

@Ken_Rosenthal tweeted Oh man. RIP Scrap Iron. 💬 @Brewers The Brewers are saddened to learn of the passing of Phil Garner https://t.co/NLHqhxhm2P

Now that these jerseys are about to be Wisc0-2 I'm willing to accept more arguments against them.

I don't always like the way the Brewers do it and i've taken some lumps for saying so, but when I was a young fan in the 90's it would've been *unfathomable* to not only have multiple Brewers entries in a national notes column, but also to go out of one's way to promote that.

Let’s try this again without the typo: Looking like tomorrow's FanGraphs Sunday Notes column will be heavy on Milwaukee Brewers content. A lot of other stuff, certainly, but definitely a bunch of Brewers.

Unrelated: Nearly everyone i've seen offer and opinion on the Wisco jerseys could use a moment to pause, look in the mirror and ask, "Is this bad or is it just not marketed to me in particular?"

The suspense is palpable this afternoon as the Marlins expand on their lead over the Reds in the sixth inning. If this result holds the Brewers will return to sole possession of first in the NL Central.

Count your blessings, Brewers fans. It's a lot more fun to write the "here's the math on the Brewers' hot start" piece, like I did for Shepherd Express this week, then it is to have to write pieces like this.

So we've established that beer in the dugout is not ok but crushing a mid-inning Uncrustable is encouraged. We're getting ever closer to knowing *exactly* where the line is.

A quick foray into college basketball: If UConn wins tonight then Marquette (KenPom #83) will become the lowest ranked team with a win over the eventual national champions since Houston (#132) beat UConn on December 31, 2013.

This is one of the weirder things I've stumbled across while digging for data: In 2005 every MLB team won at least two but no more than four of their first six games.

Does Jake Bauers have a foot on the bag? The story of the series.

If it seemed like Yandy Diaz really took his time on thay homer trot it's because he did. I have the trot at 31.85 seconds. (Cc @larrygranillo.bsky.social)

I haven't pulled up the numbers but you'd have to think the Brewers threw a lot of those pitches to the White Sox.

Just heard someone say they're going to "Beautiful Orlando" and it made me wonder if I've been going to the wrong one all this time.

"How did he mistakenly see something that didn't occur" is... well, I kind of know the answer to that, from experience as a fallible human. It's more "how did his risk-assessment go so haywire that he went way out on a limb to make a career-defining mistake for no reason?"

Just an unbelievably strange call. Nobody was pointing at the base, nobody was asking him to make this call. He just put a huge, unnecessary bet on an super unusual thing having occurred. Bizarre. I can't make it make any sense.

CB Bucknor has a new call for his Greatest Hits compilation.

Just saying, teams with former Timber Rattlers managers on their coaching staffs went 2-0 today. All other teams will go a combined 10-12.